A student should not be taught more than he can think about.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Dreams have a way of persisting. They just don't come true until you DO what you CAN.

Instead of trying to hide yourself from the world, make it your signature trait. Make what most people think to be the worst of you become something your proud of.

I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.

Sign at a New England church: Will the last person to leave please see that the perpetual light is extinguished?

Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.